Shit man, next year we're gonna be a decade old. Its also wild that you can trace the line of dominoes from us to the exposure of all the current day insanity, one event and regime-double-down at a time.
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I thought Trump was an insane lunatic and a racist birther, and that his supporters were lowlife, racist inbred hicks. Basically, the standard European opinion when you don't know anything about America and think that you actually get an accurate picture of the country by reading the New York Times.
But whenever I voiced any opinion that strayed even mildly from media orthodoxy, Hillary supporters would level the most vile insults at me for only agreeing with them 95%, while pro-Trump would say things like "I understand that you don't support Trump, but it's at least good that you're thinking for yourself". I started thinking that just maybe these people aren't the bad guys I had been told, and that these other people might be possessed by the demon called the media.
Things have gotten so bad that I can't help but laugh at my earlier thoughts about Trump and his supporters, which even if true, aren't nearly as bad as the situation now.
Probably because the right has no power anywhere. But yeah, 'muh both sides' does not apply because we're dealing with the world as it is, and the problems we find here, and not with the problems of world of the imagination where leprechauns rule and are oppressing us poor humans.
Isn't it a classic? Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.
Unless you're a far leftist, in which case you believe things practically as absurd as that, without questioning the insanity in the slightest. Again, part of the big problem with the ideology; they actively refuse to see the world as it is, instead focusing on fictional utopianism.
I think we overestimate the role of ideology and underestimate that of conformity. The average far-leftist doesn't believe what he does because of some coherent (or even incoherent) ideology, but because he simply believes what he's told to believe, what all his friends believe, what the media tells him, what his teachers told him.
It might also be more pleasant to believe that. The CIA are the good guys, America is doing good around the world, you have the truth imparted to you by the media, and the only problem is that there are these Trumpians who refuse these obvious solutions.
Belief in solutions rather than trade-offs, described in detail by Thomas Sowell, is a main problem here - and not just with the left. Almost everything is a trade-off. Everything that you believe 'will make the world better' will also make it worse in some other area, just almost never to the same extent.